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Cricket and Race (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Cricket and Race (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Nominated for Cricket Society Book of the Year Award 2002.Winner of
the 2001 Lord Aberdare Prize for Sports History.Any attempt to
understand the nature of social relations and cultural identities
in modern Britain must consider the significance of sport. Sports
have had a crucial role in sustaining national consciousness.
Because cricket has so often been regarded as a symbol of
Englishness, especially amongst those with economic and political
influence, the role of race in the sport provides penetrating
insights into English national identity, from the belief in racial
superiority underlying imperial expansion through to more recent
debates about sporting links with South Africa, and racial
animosities at test matches. This book examines cricket and race in
England over the past century and a half. The author considers how
far and in what respects cricket has reflected the racist
assumptions of whites, and its role as an arena for ethnic conflict
as well as understanding and harmony in England. In the first half
of the twentieth century, commentary on the playing abilities of
West Indian cricketers was often superficially laudatory but
condescending in tone, and argued that racial characteristics would
limit their achievements as players. More recently, campaigns to
combat racism in the sport and the contributions of
African-Caribbeans and Asians to recreational cricket show how
central cricket is to appraisals of the cultural factors that have
shaped ethnic relations. This absorbing book provides an incisive
overview of the interconnections among cricket, race and culture.
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